Voting Intentions since the Spending Review

A._Badger

blueboy43 wrote: »

Is it because that is what is expected from the looney Libertarians ?

I bet that shows the politicians how angry you are.

Talk about futile gestures.

This from someone who, ISTR, voted for the Lib-Dumbs!

What could possibly be more futile than voting for a party to the Left of Brown's Labour and winding-up in bed with the Eton Grocer? (c. James Delingpole).

bendix

A._Badger wrote: »

If you're not able to work out why people do it, no doubt an explanation would sail clear over your head.

Meanwhile, if voting for the likes of Call Me Dave, Red Ed or the Cleggoron makes you feel better, you're equally welcome. It's just shame medical science has yet to find a satisfactory treatment for the need to perform futile tribal gestures..

I didnt vote for anyone. I voted for the party that is closest to my philosophical outlook on life and which - if elected - would come closer to organising the country and its finances in a way that I have most chances of being happy about.

It's just a shame medical science has yet to find a satisfactory treatment for the need to make futile protest gestures, when you have a chance to actually make a difference to the future of your life.

ukcarper

bendix wrote: »

I didnt vote for anyone. I voted for the party that is closest to my philosophical outlook on life and which - if elected - would come closer to organising the country and its finances in a way that I have most chances of being happy about.

It's just a shame medical science has yet to find a satisfactory treatment for the need to make futile protest gestures, when you have a chance to actually make a difference to the future of your life.

Funny that. That’s exactly what I did and got the opposite.

blueboy43

A._Badger wrote: »

This from someone who, ISTR, voted for the Lib-Dumbs!

What could possibly be more futile than voting for a party to the Left of Brown's Labour and winding-up in bed with the Eton Grocer? (c. James Delingpole).

I am suffering a bad case of buyers remorse.

bendix

ukcarper wrote: »

Funny that. That’s exactly what I did and got the opposite.

That's why it's always a mistake to vote for a party without principles.

What did you seriously expect to get by voting LibDems? They have been craving power for a century - they would have sold their mothers if you offered them a seat at cabinet.

Love them or loathe them, you can at least rely on the Tories to be what it says on the wrapper.

Graham_Devon

Wheezy wrote: »

Please explain. When you voted back in May, what part of the Libdem manifesto were you attracted to?
Their pledge to scrap tuition fees?
Their pledge to oppose VAT rise?
Their pledge to ditch Trident?
Their pledge to oppose deep and early cuts?


Just wondering.

Change. That's what I wanted, and got it in bucketfuls.

Luckily, I'm also pretty sane in this regard, and realise you can't always have everything in your manifesto, and could look past their amenifesto anyway, as every government I've read about has changed their pledges as soon as they have taken power. One look at Obama shows how utterly stupid some of the electorate really are, they seem to believe the make believe, happily ever after story, and real life gets ignored. The same people are then the ones moaning the loudest that what they voted for isn't happening....no !!!!!! sherlock, you beleived what you wanted and ignored everything else.

I think if anyone can stand back, and say "i tend to agree with this party....BUT, this is the current situation" then they are more likely to be realistic about it.

However, if you stand there saying "I want this this and this, and I shall ignore the current situation" you'll always be dissapointed.

I'd love to give some of the hardcore labour supporters (I say labour as this seems to be a labour issue) the run of the country for one day, and allow them to implement their plans...then watch the country fall to it's knees witin the same day.

It's not all nice in parliament, you have to deal with the horrible results your policies sometimes bring.

StevieJ

AD9898 wrote: »

On top of that, it's turned hundreds of thousands of of families into 'dual working, stick kids in child care for 12 hours a day' debt slaves to pay gargantuan mortgages that can't even be paid by two incomes if base rate rises from 0.5%, with all the consequences to society as a whole.

Both my parents worked when I was young, nothing has changed?

Charlton_King

So, having read through the thread, I make that a more than adequate drift away from the coalition such as to give Labour a landslide.

StevieJ

It is like doing a voting intentions survey in Tory party headquarters at Millbank Fortunately in the real world Labour will soon be swept back into power, I haven't voted for them recently but will be doing now Brown has gone.

Charlton_King

bendix wrote: »

That's why it's always a mistake to vote for a party without principles.

What did you seriously expect to get by voting LibDems? They have been craving power for a century - they would have sold their mothers if you offered them a seat at cabinet.

Love them or loathe them, you can at least rely on the Tories to be what it says on the wrapper.

Actually that's inaccurate as Cameron has been desperate to rebrand the Tories as an electable, non-nasty party - and then what do we see in the benches behind him on Der Tag?

Why, only the spectacle of Libdems sitting cringingly and guiltily alongside triumphalist, leering and jeering Tory backbenchers waving their order papers in sheer delight at the savaging of the welfare state and baying for more of the same.

The wrapper said something other than what turns out in fact to be clearly an unreformed, Thatcherite mob.

As for the Libdem wrapper, I grant you, it said something totally opposite to what was hidden inside, so indeed they are worse by some distance.